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Course code: IPS10073f17Semester: 2017/2018 winter
Name: Managing Water Resources in Non-urban Areas
Major: Land Management
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 3
ECTS points: 7
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 60 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. inż. Szymon Szewrański, prof. dr hab. inż. Janusz Łomotowski, prof. dr hab. inż. Marian Rojek
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The course in English will be available if a minimum of 6 students sign up for a group. If less than 6 students sign up for the group, the course will be available in Polish with the possibility of individual support in English. Contact person: dr hab. inż. Szymon Szewrański
Learning outcomes: Student: knows the basic climatic and ecophysiographic determinants of the formation of water resources; knows the tools for strategic management and planning in water economy knows the practices of integrated water management in non-urban areas; Skills can gather and analyse basic climatic data estimate the water resources of a given area; can formulate elements of an aquatic legal survey regarding household waste discharge and purification;
Competences: Student understands the need for social participation and control in managing water resources.
Prerequisites: none
Course content: Topics concern integrated water management. Water resources management in climate change conditions, qualitive and quantitive water protection in spatial planning The climate and its tendency to change. Water resources and ways of using them. Water policy and water management systems (institutions, organisational-functional solutions, administrative mechanisms, social control). Planning in water economy. The economic aspects of water economy. The integrated systems of managing water resources. The quantity and quality of household waste. household and housing estate sewage systems. Problems related to the purification of small amounts of waste. The localisation determinants of household and housing estate purification plants. Building small water-sewage management facilities.
Recommended literature: A handbook for integrated water resources management in basins, GWP & INBO, 2009
Assessment methods: evaluation of 3 project tutorials, 3 partial examinations
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